It updated a Thinkpad dock with no issues while on Windows, I had to find specific drivers and sketchy update utilities. Awesome!
It updated a Thinkpad dock with no issues while on Windows, I had to find specific drivers and sketchy update utilities. Awesome!
I’m not pointing to a problem per se. I’m just saying that this dev dismissed the act of building this from scratch as impossible when it is not actually impossible. Honestly, I’m just trying to spread the word about Nix and GUIX because they make things that were previously considered impossible (like this) possible.
I see, that’s plenty fair enough, although I don’t think they meant it quite so literally (but rather as a method of lightening their support requests - I don’t have any fwupd capable hardware AFAIK however I get the feeling fwupd is pretty popular).
I find it really cool what Nix/Guix are doing and I give major props to their communities for what they’ve pulled off, for what its worth.
Interestingly enough, someone actually did release two nix derivations for this software!
https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=23.05&show=fwupd-efi&from=0&size=50&sort=relevance&type=packages&query=fwupd
Oh that’s awesome! Although I can’t say I’m surprised, the last I heard Nixpkgs had more packages than the AUR, which is certainly no small feat.